Welcome to the Write Out Loud Tutorial
	Launch the application by clicking on the Icon for the program.
Once you launch the application, a blank document will open. Along the top of the document you will see the following buttons. Click each button below to learn about its function.

PDF Tutorial for SOLO for downloading (from Don Johnston)
WriteOut Loud 2
WriteOut Loud 3   

There are two ways to the functions and settings: pull down menus and the tool bar

Toolbar: (click on a button to see its function)

Navigation Tools	Speech Tools	File Management	Appearance

Pull Down Menus: (File, Edit, Text, Options, Speech,
      

Once your student learns the various document tools, s/he can create a document that best supports his/her learning needs.

Creating a Document (per the Don Johnston tutorial)

(Every time you start a new document, it will use the settings currently saved as the default setting). Launch the application and an untitled document will appear on your desktop.

Once your untitled document is open, type this sentence (Deliberately misspell the word "family.")

Last summer I went on a camping trip with my famly.

As each word is completed with a spacebar or punctuation mark, the application will speak the word (if you want each letter to be spoken you must select it every time WriteOut Loud is opened; this is not a default setting).

If the student misspells a word, the menu bar will flash red and there will be an alert sound. This is the built-in spelling monitor. If an unfamiliar word is typed, it will also cause a mispell cue to occur. Once in the "Check Spelling" window, if you want the application to add the word to the built-in spelling dictionary, select "Learn" for the highlighted word.

See image below for the features in the Spelling Window.

Each document can be altered for:

• background color
• text (size, alignment, color, adding a title)
• speech (voice, pronunciations, highlighting each word spoken, etc)
• picture (adding, changing size)

See tutorials for download

Once the document is customized and completed, the user can save the document (save frequently and often).